COLUMBUS -- Options are dwindling for a condemned killer who argues he's too fat to be executed humanely under the state's lethal injection process. A judge has dismissed the obesity claim made by ...

Ohio has executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane. Richard Cooey died at 10:28 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional ...

Richard Wade Cooey II died peacefully Tuesday with a lethal combination of drugs administered through two needles inserted gently into veins in each arm. He was executed by the state of Ohio for the ...

On the menu for Monday, Oct. 13, 2008: a T-bone steak with A-1 sauce; onion rings; hash browns; French fries; buttered toast; four eggs over easy; a pint of rocky road ice cream, bear claw pastries, ...

Ohio executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane. Richard Cooey, 41, died at 10:28 a.m. Tuesday at the Southern Ohio Correctional ...

A double murderer who claimed he was too fat to be safely executed was put to death by lethal injection today. Richard Cooey, 5ft 7ins and 19 stones, had tried to escape his sentence by claiming his ...